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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of recent and Tertiary gastropod mollusks with elongate subcylindrical or fusiform shell and short spire largely overlapped by the body-whorl.

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  • noun Plural form of seraph.

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Examples

  • What is rapturously sung in the threefold invocation of the seraphs is the infinite exaltation of

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • The boys who went there were a lesser kind of seraphs, sitting in the shade of a perennial tree of knowledge.

    John Godfrey's fortunes, related by himself 1864

  • He writes of the "damp garden of the seriphs," and I wonder if he means "seraphs," or if he has combined the American "serif" with the British

    dbqp: visualizing poetics Geof Huth 2008

  • Shen of the Prediction '(while you polarized by Light patterns and can with compatible networks of tele - 39 Through the pineal area, or are within the mental pathways receive telethought communication, thought communication, can in - third eye network, the framework controlled by the servomechanisms your biological form may appear struct the human self with signals of our biological system, operating or' seraphs 'who control the the same, but your body can work which persist i n "real time" by within the dynamic aspects of mechanical imagery of the mind). with multiple biological environ - color patches of quantized brain ac - Gravity waves and Light waves,' The Way of Shen of the Predic - ments in its three-dimensional layer tivities which can order the ma - can experience the boundaries of tion 'is also called' phyva-gsen of physical reality.

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  • (within the mental pathways controlled by the pathways controlled by the 'seraphs') or

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  • PINBACK autumn of the seraphs LP Record Sealed rob crow

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 5786 2009

  • Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim and thrones

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim and thrones

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Over a hundred years later, the earth has plunged into an ice age, and seraphs and demons fight a never-ending battle while religious strife rages among the surviving humans.

    [INTERVIEW] Faith Hunter (Gwen Hunter) « Urban Fantasy Land 2008

  • And the appearance of seraphs heralded three plagues and a devastating war between the forces of good and evil.

    [INTERVIEW] Faith Hunter (Gwen Hunter) « Urban Fantasy Land 2008

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  • Garbled 'phrases'. NYT crossword answer.

    March 26, 2008

  • Shouldn't this be seraphim?

    March 28, 2008

  • I think seraphim refers to the class of angels, but seraph is an angel, and seraphs is plural. Though seraphim tends to be used for plural as well as the class. I mean, as often as it gets used at all, which isn't often.

    March 28, 2008

  • Similar to cherubim.

    March 28, 2008